Articles by willsheward

Eyeball Networks become an XSF Sponsor

We're happy to announce that Eyeball Networks are the latest organisation to become an XSF Sponsor.

Eyeball Networks pioneered the STUN/TURN/ICE device-to-device connection technologies adopted by communications standards including SIP, XMPP, IMS, PacketCable, IBM Sametime, Microsoft Lync, and now WebRTC. You can read more about them here ...

Posted by willsheward on May, 26, 2015 - filed under misc

An introduction to xmppresearch.org

At the recent Summit 17, we were very happy to welcome Dominik Renzel and István Koren from the recently launched site xmppresearch.org. The declared mission of the project is to:

"collect and to present scientific research work based on XMPP"

The site, which is a collaboration between RWTH Aachen ...

Posted by willsheward on March, 03, 2015 - filed under misc

Thank you to new and returning XSF sponsors

We'd like to say a big "thank you" to two companies who have recently signed up as sponsors of the XMPP Standards Foundation.

Erlang Solutions are a new XSF sponsor who specialise in providing businesses with scalable solutions via the creation, integration, delivery and lifetime support of products and ...

Posted by willsheward on February, 16, 2015 - filed under misc

XMPP Summit 9

The ninth XMPP Summit to be held by the XMPP Standards Foundation was held at OSCON 2010 in Portland, Oregon (USA) on Monday July 19 and Tuesday July 20, 2010.

Participants

The following people registered their participation in advance:

lya Braude
Nathan Fritz
Joe Hildebrand
Steffen Larsen
Jérôme Sautret
Jon ...

Posted by willsheward on December, 01, 2010 - filed under misc

Board and Council Elections 2010

In accordance with the XSF Bylaws, once a year the XMPP Standards Foundation holds elections for its Board of Directors and for the XMPP Council. Elections for the 2010-2011 Board and Council will be held on October 25, 2010 (with proxy voting 1 Oct. - 24 Oct.).

If you are interested ...

Posted by willsheward on September, 28, 2010 - filed under misc

Q1 Membership Drive

The XMPP Standards Foundation is currently accepting applications for new members. This application period will run until the end of January.

Why apply?

Help the XSF with technical reviews and communication efforts
Help elect the XMPP Council and XSF Board of Directors, or run for the Council yourself (council candidates ...

Posted by willsheward on January, 25, 2010 - filed under misc

XMPP Summit 8 / FOSDEM 2010

Once again the XSF will be combining one of our Summit meetings with attendance at FOSDEM in Brussels on the weekend of 6/7 February 2010.

We'll have a devroom for half a day at FOSDEM (as we did last year - see here for some blog posts) and run ...

Posted by willsheward on December, 23, 2009 - filed under misc

Information Flow in XMPP Clients @ FOSDEM 09

Those who attended FOSDEM would have seen Dave Cridland typing furiously during the day's other XMPP talks when everyone else was paying attention to the speakers. Some might have assumed that this was because Dave hadn't written his presentation until the day he was due to give it ...

Posted by willsheward on April, 21, 2009 - filed under misc

Large Scale XMPP Deployments @ FOSDEM 09

In his talk at FOSDEM this year Florian Jensen, CTO and co-founder of Flosoft, talked about the challenges involved in setting up and administering a large scale XMPP deployment. Forian's slides are available in PDF format here

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Posted by willsheward on April, 17, 2009 - filed under misc

Personal Media Networks @ FOSDEM 2009

XMPP isn't just about instant messaging - in his talk at FOSDEM, Dirk Meyer explored how XMPP can form the basis of a powerful, yet secure, Personal Media Network - allowing access to your music collection from wherever you are, playing your videos on your friend's TV, and seemlessly integrating ...